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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.

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Collected Audio

Caitlin Davies – Why I Write

Many times I’ve said I’ve had I enough, I’m getting a real job; I can’t take the uncertainty anymore. Then…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
Collected Audio

Jonny Wright – My Reading Habits

Newspaper stories act as one of my biggest writing inspirations. I’ve often come across a random story which gets my…

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Collected Audio

Amanda Mitchison – Why I Write

Whenever anything awful happened somewhere in the world, I would be sent there: fly out Wednesday; file the copy Friday,…

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Collected Audio

Maria McCann – My Reading Habits

There’s a Library Shelf in the living room where all the through-traffic is stored; library books, obviously, plus books borrowed…